Zhu Cihong had just rested in Zhongcui Palace for a while, and not long after, Empress Zhou of Kunning Palace sent a palace maid to summon Zhu Cihong to Kunning Palace to meet him.

Queen Zhou was worried about Zhu Cihong all day long, she didn't eat well, and she slept well, and she lost a lot of weight.

When Zhu Cihong saw Empress Zhou's weakened appearance for the first time, his heart seemed to be in pain, and Zhu Cihong knew that Empress Zhou was all for herself, so she became like this.

Zhu Cihong said a little choked: "Queen Mother, you have lost weight, the Queen Mother must take care of her body, so that the emperor can rest assured." ”

Queen Zhou was very relieved to see Zhu Cihong's arrival, and with a long-lost smile on her face, she stood up, took Zhu Cihong's hand, and let Zhu Cihong sit next to her.

While looking at it, she said: "The emperor is tanned, but he looks stronger, the emperor can be safe, and the queen mother will be relieved." ”

Zhu Cihong looked at this young and beautiful mother-in-law, felt very guilty in her heart, and said apologetically: "Queen Mother, last time the emperor left in a hurry, the queen mother won't blame the emperor." ”

Empress Zhou pretended to be angry and said: "How can the queen mother not blame you, in the name of visiting your imperial aunt, she actually secretly ran out of the palace, and led troops out of the city, you bold little thing." ”

Zhu Cihong smiled awkwardly, and asked Wu Zhong behind him to hand over the prepared gift to deal with the woman, only the gift can resolve everything.

Zhu Cihong ransomed all the jewelry that Empress Zhou had sponsored him before, and prepared some gold, jade and a few small gifts.

When Queen Zhou saw this large pile of objects, she was stunned at first, and then gently poked Zhu Cihong's head with her jade finger, and said with a smile: "Why did the emperor go out and make a fortune?" ”

Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "The emperor has seized a lot of materials and silver coins this time, and he has indeed made a small fortune. ”

Empress Zhou frowned slightly and said, "The materials of the slaves? ”

Zhu Cihong hurriedly explained: "The emperor heard that the queen mother had moved to Daxing City with the abbot when she was young, and these gifts were specially purchased by the emperor from Daxing City, not the stolen goods of slaves, please let the queen mother be relieved!" ”

Hearing this, Queen Zhou regained her face and said: "The emperor is so caring at a young age, whose daughter will marry you in the future is really a blessing!" ”

Zhu Cihong was a little embarrassed, and just didn't know how to reply, only to hear a crisp and pleasant voice outside: "Who is going to marry a wife?" ”

The person who came was Queen Yi'an, she was beautiful and plump, her face was like Guanyin, her eyes were like autumn waves, her mouth was like a cherry blossom, and her teeth were fine.

Empress Yi'an was a smart person, and she guessed that Zhu Cihong would definitely be summoned by Empress Zhou after returning to the palace, so she immediately set off to Kunning Palace after hearing that the prince had come out of the Qianqing Palace.

However, the Ciqing Palace where she lives is still near the Donghua Gate, and the location of Kunning Palace in the palace belongs to the same south and north, so it took a lot of time to arrive.

Zhu Cihong saw that it was Empress Yi'an, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute and said, "Cihong asks the imperial aunt Kun'an!" ”

Empress Zhou also saluted and said: "My sister has seen the imperial sister-in-law, and just now I was thinking of sending someone to Ciqing Palace to invite you over." ”

Empress Yi'an nodded at Empress Zhou, then held Zhu Cihong's face with both hands, tears flashed in her eyes, and said, "The prince is tanned and thin, but he is more energetic." ”

Among the three surviving princes of Emperor Chongzhen, Empress Yi'an took special care of Zhu Cihong and regarded him as her own son, not because of her status as the crown prince, but because of an incident that happened a few years ago.

When Zhu Cihong was three or four years old, he often went to the imperial horse prison next to the Donghua Gate, pestered Cao Huachun to pick a pony for him to practice riding and archery, and happened to pass by the Ciqing Palace of Empress Yi'an next to the imperial horse supervisor.

Zhu Cihong saw that the gate of Ciqing Palace was wide open, and there was a noise inside, so he slipped in to take a look, which was amazing.

Wei Zhongxian, Yu Dang, and the chief eunuch of the harem, Chen Derun, coveted Empress Zhang's beauty and youth, and wanted to pair up with Empress Zhang to eat and share her belongings, but Empress Zhang sternly refused and reprimanded the dead eunuch.

Unexpectedly, this dead eunuch was so bold that when the palace people were serving Empress Zhang with toiletries in the early morning, the dead eunuch Chen Derun broke into Empress Zhang's bedroom directly under the pretext that he had something to do.

Empress Zhang was frightened by him, and at the same time angry, scolded and ordered someone to drive him out, Chen Derun used his identity as the head of the palace, no eunuch and palace maid dared to do anything with him, and he even scolded this Empress Zhang who had a dead husband on the spot.

Zhu Cihong happened to encounter it and saw all this with his own eyes, so he lifted a small flower bed with bonsai in Ciqing Palace, and shot with one hand and shoulder during the march.

Zhu Cihong jumped up suddenly after getting close, and slammed the small flower bed on the back of the old eunuch's head, shattering the altar on the spot, and the old eunuch's blood was splashed on the spot, and he fainted.

Later, the incident alarmed Emperor Chongzhen, who was furious, beat Chen Derun severely, and dismissed him from the post of chief eunuch, and was demoted to Nanjing Ming Xiaoling to grow vegetables.

Anyway, I don't know who started first, the people in the palace always like to demote the eunuchs who committed crimes to the Ming Tomb in Nanjing to grow vegetables, first Li Fang in the Longqing period, then Feng Bao, the companion of the Wanli Emperor, then Cao Huachun, and now this Chen Derun.

Cao Huachun was lucky, he was framed by Wei Zhongxian and went to Nanjing to grow vegetables for a few years, and his master Chongzhen immediately summoned him back after becoming the emperor, and walked from the lowest point in his life to the peak of his life.

Zhu Cihong looked at Queen Zhang in front of her, and was inexplicably moved and helpless in her heart, although Queen Zhang seemed to be in good shape at this time, Zhu Cihong found that she seemed to be fighting her spirits.

Empress Zhang was still immersed in the grief of the destruction of the Deling Tomb, but she was in a slightly better mood when she saw Zhu Cihong return to the palace.

The ancients have always paid attention to the soil for peace, after the destruction of the tomb of the imperial court had no money to repair, which made Empress Zhang even more sad, the tomb of his husband Emperor Tianqi, but also her place a hundred years later.

Emperor Chongzhen is also in a hurry, now that the Qing soldiers are violating the border, a lot of grain, grass and money are needed to fight, and the household department can no longer open the pot, how can there be extra silver money to spend on Deling.

The two queens exchanged pleasantries, and then Queen Zhou said: "The emperor quickly told the queen mother and your imperial aunt what happened outside." ”

Zhu Cihong will start from the beheading of Chengguo Gong in front of the Zhimen in the west of Beijing, and tell the story of the encounter with soldiers and bandits on the road, the battle of Shijingshan, the bloody battle of Liangxiang, the riots in the city, and the execution of traitors.

Zhu Cihong is like a storyteller, who speaks with twists and turns, and speaks vividly. The two young women, Empress Zhou and Empress Yi'an, listened with relish, sometimes sad, sometimes frightened, and sometimes clapped their hands.

In the end, both of them sighed for a while, they didn't expect the people of Gyeonggi to have such a difficult life, and at the same time they hated Jiannu even more.

The two empresses, one is the empress of the Emperor of the Apocalypse and the other is the empress of the Chongzhen Emperor, both of them were born in small families, and they have lived an ordinary civilian life since they were children, and they are quite touched by the suffering of the people.

Although they never participated in court politics, they often reminded their husbands to care about the people's welfare, and they had a very good reputation among the people, and they were all virtuous queens of a generation.

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Note: Sorry, there is a mistake in Chapter 9, saying that Empress Zhang lives in Duanben Palace, in fact, it is still called Ciqing Palace at this time, and in history, Zhu Cihong moved to Ciqing Palace when he was fifteen years old and was ready to take a concubine, and changed its name to Duanben Palace.......

Today's Duanben Palace is long gone, and the parking lot north of the Qing History Museum of the Forbidden City is the site of Duanben Palace.......